/*
 * Copyright 2008 Christopher Davies
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.googlecode.textish.tokenizer;

/**
 * A token is a range within a sequence of characters that can be described as a
 * unit.
 * 
 * @author cgdavies
 * 
 */
public interface IToken {

	/**
	 * @return the index within the source character array from which the token
	 * begins
	 */
	public int getStartIndex();

	/**
	 * @return one more than the index of the last character in the source array
	 * classified as being a part of this token
	 */
	public int getEndIndex();
	
}
